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to
thf
Chief of
Sinners.
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a more· grievous and dreadful
T'en1ptation
than before. .
·
1
33·
And '· that
\Vas,
to
foil
and par·t with
t~-:Jil
mofl ble;fed Chrifl
~to e.t~change
hitn fot
the things
of this
life,for
any
thing.
1-·heTernptation
lay
11pon
n1e
for
the
fpace
ofa
Year,
and did fol–
low me fo continually,that I was not rid of
it
one
day in
a Month; no, not
fon1etimes.one·
hour in many days together, unlefs when I
was afleep.
,
I
·
1
34·
l\nd tho' in
tny
Judgment I was per–
fwaded, that thofe
who were
effe&nally in.
Chrifr(as I hoped,thro' his Grace, I had been
my
felt) could
neve·r
lofe
hin1 for ever;
(For ·
the land fhall not be fold for ever, for the land is .
mine,
faith God,
I ..
ev.25.23.)
yet·
it
was a con–
tinual
vexation
to
n1e,
to think
that
1 iliould
have fo much
as ·one
fuch thought within
n1e
againft a Chrifr, a Jefus, that had
done for
me
as he had
done; and yet then
I
had
aln1oft
none
others
bEt
fi1ch
blafphen1ous
ones.
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5· But
it
was neither
tny
difiike of the '
thought._nor
yet any
defire. or endeavour to
/
rcfift it,th:It in the leaft did fhake or abate the
continuation or force and
iltength
thereof;
for it
did
alyvays,in
altnoft
whatever
I
thought,
intern1'x
it
felf
therewith,
in
fuch
fort that l
~ould ne~ther
eat
wy
food, Hoop
f~r
a pin,
chop a
ftick,
or caft
n1ine Eye
to look
on this
or that,, but Hill the te1nptation \\·ould con1e, ·
Ee!l
ChrYl
for
this,
or
fell
Chrifl for
that,
fell hirJJ,
· '.
fell him.
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